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Daughters of the Declaration: How Women Social Entrepreneurs Built the American Dream $13.84 America’s founding fathers established an idealistic framework for a bold experiment in democratic governance. The new nation would be built on the belief that “all men are created equal, and are endowed…with a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The challenge of turning these ideals into reality for all citizens was taken up by a set of exceptional American women. Di…

Across the Divide: Navigating the Digital Revolution as a Woman, Entrepreneur and CEO $16.61 A First-hand account of a pioneering woman’s experiences in the world of business and computing. Anecdotal history of computing from the days of punched card computing to the present. Observations, insights and tips drawn from the author’s personal experiences as one of the first female programmers at IBM and later founder of SSE….

Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat $5.50 In striking counterpoint to the conventional account, Pocahontas is a bold biography that tells the extraordinary story of the beloved Indian maiden from a Native American perspective. Dr. Paula Gunn Allen, the acknowledged founder of Native American literary studies, draws on sources often overlooked by Western historians and offers remarkable new insights into the adventurous life and sacred rol…

Entrepreneur Magazine $11.97 Entrepreneur magazine is for magazine for small business owners and decision makers. It provides a broad range of information including financial and tax advice, computing, new ideas for business, publicity, promotion and advertising. Please note that the discount coupons are not available for this magazine.Entrepreneur Magazine is part of the Business family of magazines. It is generally sold to individuals and businesses and quite often can be found in a reception room or waiting room of a company or a professional office like a dentist, doctor, health club, gym, or beauty and hair salon. A full year magazine subscription to Entrepreneur Magazine includes issues delivered right to your mailbox.

The Entrepreneur $40 This thoroughly revised edition of Mark Casson's "The Entrepreneur" presents a novel synthesis of the ideas of Joseph Schumpeter, Frank Knight and Friedrich Hayek, according to which the defining characteristic of the entrepreneur is the exercise of judgement in business decisions.

To Be or Not to Be an Entrepreneur $10.88 To Be or Not to Be an Entrepreneur

The Accidental Entrepreneur $17.95 A successful entrepreneur reveals how to reap the unlimited rewards of being one's own boss.

The Entrepreneur Equation $24.95 There's never been a better time to start a business—or so the conventional wisdom would have you believe. But with up to 90 percent of businesses failing within the first five years, it's time to take off the rose-colored glasses and think twice before you invest your precious time, money and energy. The Entrepreneur Equation helps you do the math before you set down the entrepreneurial path so that you can answer more than just "Could I be an entrepreneur?" but rather "Should I be an entrepreneur?" By understanding what it takes to build a valuable business as well as how to assess the risks and rewards of business ownership based on your personal circumstances, you can learn how to stack the odds of success in your favor and ultimately decide if business ownership is the best possible path for you, now or ever. Through illustrative examples and personalized exercises, tell-it-like-it-is Carol Roth helps you create and evaluate your own personal Entrepreneur Equation as you:. • Learn what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur in today's. competitive environment. • Save money, time and effort by avoiding business ownership when the. time isn't right for you. • Identify and evaluate the risks and rewards of a new business based. on your goals and circumstances. • Evaluate whether your dreams are best served by a hobby, job or. business. • Gain the tools that you need to maximize your business success. The Entrepreneur Equation is essential reading for the aspiring entrepreneur. Before you invest your life savings, invest in this book!.

The Elite Entrepreneur $14.96 If anyone knows what it takes to be an elite entrepreneur, it’s Ephren Taylor.Author of a 2009 Wall Street bestseller Creating Success from the Inside Out, Taylor started his first business venture at age 12, when he began making video games. By age

The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America’s Greatest Woman Entrepreneur $18.99 The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America’s Greatest Woman Entrepreneur is back in print and updated to reflect developments in today’s business environment for the modern entrepreneur. You will find inspiration and real, proven success principles that represents the forty-five year old success story of Mary Kay Ash, founder Mary Kay, Inc., the cosmetics company that provides women with unlimited opportunities for success. A foreword by Mary Kay’s grandson, also a company executive, introduces her timeless guide to entrepreneurial success.

How To Succeed as a Lifestyle Entrepreneur $18.95 How to Succeed as a Lifestyle Entrepreneur is a guide that shows how to use the powerful tools of business management to create a business that supports their lifestyle, without having it run their life! Filled with inspirational real life profiles, How to Succeed as a Lifestyle Entrepreneur redefines successful entrepreneurship, speaking to those men and women who put play, health, family or pleasure before work, as well as people who see owning their own business as a way to get off the treadmill, not speed it up.

American Entrepreneur $29.95 America’s history has always been shaped by private enterprise. Here are the stories of the people who led those businesses to success.

Effortless Entrepreneur $11.99 Nick Friedman and Omar Soliman started the multimillion-dollar franchise College Hunks Hauling Junk when they were just twenty two, and they’ve been having the time of their lives ever since. What’s their secret?   That’s just it–there isn’t one. There’s no fancy software or complicated business schemes. No outside investors or quirky market niche. They just followed 10 common-sense commandments to building a straightforward, fun, and successful business that does a simple job well. Anyone can understand it, and anyone can do it.   From the Trade Paperback edition.

Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur $14.99 Entrepreneur Stuart Skorman—the founder of Elephant Pharmacy, Hungryminds.com, Reel.com, and Empire Video—grew up in a retailing family in Ohio. He worked every kind of job, from cab driver to professional poker player to CEO. In this entertaining, personal account of his coming-of- age in the business world, Skorman gives an insider’s view of what it takes to start a business from the ground up. Stuart Skorman offers his hard-won lessons in business for any entrepreneur or small businessperson who wants to create a company that has a heart and soul. He reveals what he learned about marketing while working a stint as a rock band manager and bares his soul about his failure during the dot-com bubble. He describes in vivid terms the roller coaster ride of the entrepreneur in good times and bad and explains how to survive in today’s uncertain business environment.

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Advertising $56 Geared to the fast-changing media world of the 21st century, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Advertising was written to offer both basic advertising concepts and advanced, state-of-the-art information about the new advertising environment. In its pages, two expert authors walk the entrepreneur through each and every stage necessary to create an integrated and synergistic advertising and marketing communications program. This guide covers all of the many facets of advertising, as well as the variables that make up the Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) mix. Most notably, the book provides a framework entrepreneurs can use to develop a marketing communication (MARCOM) plan of their own. Readers will come away from The Entrepreneur's Guide to Advertising with an enhanced ability to make research-based judgments about their market and a new savvy about their approach to communications.

The One Minute Entrepreneur $9.99 Mega – bestselling author Ken Blanchard and celebrated business leaders Don Hutson and Ethan Willis present an inspiring story that reveals the secrets to becoming a successful entrepreneur. In THE ONE MINUTE ENTREPRENEUR, Ken Blanchard (coauthor of the #1 bestselling business classic The One Minute Manager ), Don Hutson, CEO of U.S. Learning, and Ethan Willis, CEO of Prosper Learning, tell the inspiring story of one man’s challenges in creating his own business. Through a powerful and engaging narrative, we confront many of the typical problems all entrepreneurs face in starting up their business, from finding new sources of revenue to securing the commitment of their people and the loyalty of their customers. More important, we learn the secrets to becoming a successful entrepreneur, including how to build a firm foundation, how to ensure a steady cash flow, and how to create legendary service. In addition, the book offers invaluable advice, delivered through One Minute Insights, from such entrepreneurs and thinkers as Sheldon Bowles, Peter Drucker, Michael Gerber, and Charlie “Tremendous” Jones. Today, in the midst of the largest entrepreneurial surge in U.S. history, four out of five small businesses continue to fail. THE ONE MINUTE ENTREPRENEUR offers businesspeople and would-be entrepreneurs a treasure trove of wisdom on how to think, act, and succeed in creating and sustaining a business, no matter what their industry.

How to be a Successful Entrepreneur $9.99 How to be a Successful Entrepreneur explains how to improve the odds of business success.  It will help entrepreneurs steer clear of potentially catastrophic risks and errors while spotting and exploiting good opportunities. The author addresses important decisions such as: How do I recognize a good opportunity?  When should I take a risk?  When should I cut my losses?  When is the best time to sell a thriving business?  How do I know what’s best for me?

The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook $28 Make the business of society your business. No one knows the business of social entrepreneurship better than Rupert Scofield. Cofounder and president of FINCA International—a nonprofit microfinancing institution with 7,000 employees serving 750,000 customers in 21 countries—Scofield has been a social entrepreneur for 40 years. In The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook , Scofield leads you through the entire process of starting up and running a nonprofit, sharing personal success stories and advice on what not to do—valuable lessons he learned the hard way. The process, while risky, isn’t as difficult as you might think. Practically speaking, you need only two things: an idea and a plan. The former comes from you and you alone. This book supplies the latter. The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook illuminates the path to building a successful nonprofit from the ground up. You’ll learn how to: Create a realistic plan for getting started in your chosen cause; Assemble the perfect team for putting your plan into action—and keeping it rolling in the right direction; Develop a business model specifically designed to run a nonprofit organization; Keep yourself, your staff, and your cause in solid financial shape. One of the many beauties of social entrepreneurship is that it’s never too late to start. You can be right out of school or working in the highest ranks of corporate America. It doesn’t matter. Social entrepreneurship begins with a noble cause, which turns into a passion, and soon becomes a mission worth dedicating your life to. The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook is the one and only resource you will need to attain your dream of working full-time in service to others—and making a real, measurable difference in the world.

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Successful Leadership $56 It's one thing to come up with a good business idea, and quite another to marshal the people, money, and other resources entrepreneurs need to make the dream a successful reality. That's why most businesses fail within the first two years. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Successful Leadership helps budding moguls make it out of the toddler phase of entrepreneurship and into adolescence and adulthood with confidence. A concise and practical guide to leading smaller enterprises, the book is based on a proven, nine-step model of effective leadership developed by Dan Goldberg–the founder of the For Eyes optical chain–and entrepreneur and educator Don Martin. Step by step, readers learn what real leadership looks like and how to lead and grow the successful enterprise.Creating a vibrant business starts with understanding who you are, say the authors, and then coming up with a vision, mission, and strategy. That's the easy part. The hard part is to execute the strategy in line with your dreams, while using effective, ethical tactics to establish the business and prosper. Seasoned hands, the authors make that job easier, while helping entrepreneurs understand what makes employees tick and helping them become their productive best. The hard work not only gets easier, say the authors–it pays off as entrepreneurs watch their fledgling businesses take graceful flight. This book is a treasure chest that provides key insights and methods in the form of real-life stories, humor, strategies, techniques, exercises, checklists, templates, and other resources. Each illustrates in a unique way how good leaders achieve powerful results. Many books on leadership are gimmicky. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Successful Leadership focuses–in clear, simple, and direct terms–on the essential fundamentals, the blocking and tackling, required for business success.

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